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The American Public Health Association has long recognized the role of health education professionals in improving health through education and advocacy, including their role in promoting healthy lifestyles and effectively navigating the health care system.

Specifically, APHA Policy Statement 200911, Public Health's Critical Role in Health Reform in the United States, declared that effective public health activities are essential to the health and well-being of individuals and communities to increase access to health services and avoid rising health care costs.

The importance of health education, healthy behaviors, and health system operations as a strategy to confront health literacy issues. The need for more comprehensive efforts to enumerate the public health workforce, addressed the need for interprofessional education of health care and public health professionals to improve patient-centered health outcomes.

Although Policy Statements do not specifically address health education professionals, they emphasize need for further attention to health workforce development and training and guidelines to be considered in the health education professional framework. The Role of Health Professionals in Promoting Active Measures of Prevention, acknowledged that "a variety of health care professionals are qualified to deliver specific preventive services, particularly those services which result in a change of life-styles to promote health and well-being and prevent disease and injury."

Problem Statement
The majority of health care spending and deaths in the United States are related to expensive, debilitating chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer, which can be reduced or modified through behavioral interventions. The 2013 National Health Expenditure Accounts report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) showed a 3.6% increase in health care spending in the United States, which stood at $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person per year.

By 2023, health expenditures financed by the federal, state, and local governments are projected to account for 48% of national health spending. Racial, ethnic, and sexual minority populations are disproportionately affected by certain chronic conditions owing to health barriers caused by lack of education and socioeconomic, geographic, or other sociocultural factors.

In 2005, 113 million people were living with at least one chronic disease, a number that is projected to grow to 157 million by 2020, affecting especially those below the federal poverty line. Given the aging population and associated disease-specific risk factors and social determinants, health care spending is expected to rise from $1.3 trillion in 2003 to $4.7 trillion in 2023.